Coriolanus Snow mentors and develops feelings for the female District 12 tribute during the 10th Hunger Games.Coriolanus Snow mentors and develops feelings for the female District 12 tribute during the 10th Hunger Games.Coriolanus Snow mentors and develops feelings for the female District 12 tribute during the 10th Hunger Games.
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Ayo Adegun
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- TriviaIn an interview with Vogue, costumer designer Trish Summerville said the corset with Lucy Gray's rainbow dress has katniss and primrose flowers on it. It's a nod to Katniss and Prim Everdeen from the original films.
- GoofsBefore Coriolanus is about to jump on the truck to meet up with Lucy Gray, he is seen hiding behind another truck. The camera then pans to the gate which has stationed guards on the same side that he is hiding, meaning the guards should be able to see him hiding in plain sight.
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Older Coriolanus Snow: [voice-over] It's the things we love most, that destroy us.
- Crazy creditsIn the opening scene, set during the "Dark Days", an unnamed man is seen apparently engaging in cannibalism; this character is (bizarrely) listed as "Respectable Man" in the closing credits.
- ConnectionsFeatured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Most Anticipated Franchises Returning in 2023 (2023)
- Soundtrackscan't catch me now
Written by Olivia Rodrigo and Dan Nigro (as Daniel Nigro)
Performed by Olivia Rodrigo
Produced by Dan Nigro (as Daniel Nigro)
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Ballad, Or Crass Karaoke?
"The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" is about as overlong as its title might suggest. It's a prequel origin story about the tenth Hunger Games and the character of President Snow of Panem; also known as Coriolanus Snow, played here to rousing effect by actor Tom Blyth.
Another standout performance comes from Peter Dinklage as Casca Highbottom, whose character helps to explain how the games came into their early fruition.
The film's story, based on the author Suzanne Collins' source material, pursues the humanising angle of exploring a younger and less hardened Snow as an empathetic figure - it's sort of like his Anakin Skywalker phase, pre-Vader.
He partakes as a "mentor" to games contestant Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler). She's essentially an itinerant member of the Covey people who make their living travelling around and playing music; now settled in District 12 after the war.
The story centres around Snow's fraught decision as to whether to pursue power, status, or love based on his connection to the Hunger Games, his strained social standing in the capitol, and his relation to Lucy Gray as her mentor.
The film goes wrong when we hear far too much of Lucy Gray's singing. It feels like Hunger Games feat. MTV.
She's a free-spirited character but this persona is driven home far too intensely for it to come off as natural. Her music is supposed to give her a spellbinding aura, but it's way overdone. Her jarring southern accent tries too hard to show her as that archetypal practical country belle filled with the warmth of her folkloric aphorisms. So, while she does have a certain warm charisma to her character, this heroine scarcely could hold a candle to Jennifer Lawrence's Katniss Everdeen.
In other key plot points we encounter plot armour and plot holes. The plot moves along too easily because Coriolanus conveniently pulls off a cunning move or trick on more than several occasions. These are oftentimes things that would never slide in reality.
The world itself is flush with sepia and monochrome. It feels like a good amount of retro, whilst keeping some technologies in the mix too. Sadly, the tenth Hunger Games themselves were an incredibly bland watch without anywhere near the suspense of the sequels.
5/10.
Another standout performance comes from Peter Dinklage as Casca Highbottom, whose character helps to explain how the games came into their early fruition.
The film's story, based on the author Suzanne Collins' source material, pursues the humanising angle of exploring a younger and less hardened Snow as an empathetic figure - it's sort of like his Anakin Skywalker phase, pre-Vader.
He partakes as a "mentor" to games contestant Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler). She's essentially an itinerant member of the Covey people who make their living travelling around and playing music; now settled in District 12 after the war.
The story centres around Snow's fraught decision as to whether to pursue power, status, or love based on his connection to the Hunger Games, his strained social standing in the capitol, and his relation to Lucy Gray as her mentor.
The film goes wrong when we hear far too much of Lucy Gray's singing. It feels like Hunger Games feat. MTV.
She's a free-spirited character but this persona is driven home far too intensely for it to come off as natural. Her music is supposed to give her a spellbinding aura, but it's way overdone. Her jarring southern accent tries too hard to show her as that archetypal practical country belle filled with the warmth of her folkloric aphorisms. So, while she does have a certain warm charisma to her character, this heroine scarcely could hold a candle to Jennifer Lawrence's Katniss Everdeen.
In other key plot points we encounter plot armour and plot holes. The plot moves along too easily because Coriolanus conveniently pulls off a cunning move or trick on more than several occasions. These are oftentimes things that would never slide in reality.
The world itself is flush with sepia and monochrome. It feels like a good amount of retro, whilst keeping some technologies in the mix too. Sadly, the tenth Hunger Games themselves were an incredibly bland watch without anywhere near the suspense of the sequels.
5/10.
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- $100,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $166,350,594
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $44,607,143
- Nov 19, 2023
- Gross worldwide
- $337,371,917
- Runtime2 hours 37 minutes
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- 2.39 : 1
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